Welcome

Welcome to Planets for Kids I really hope you enjoy the
information that I have provided on this website. You will find lots of
information about our solar system with lots of questions and answers
and games for you to play. We also have a color in section where you
can download pictures and have fun. Remember everything here is
"Kid-friendly" so lets get started....

Introduction

We
have nine planets in our Solar System. These planets circle around the
sun (as I’m sure you know already) this is called orbits.

A lot of astronomy people like to think of the Solar System been made
up in two parts
We have the Inner Solar System which has Mercury, Venus, Earth and not forgetting
Mars. These are closest to the sun and are called the terrestrial
planets simply because the have very solid rocky surfaces.

The Outer Solar System has Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune these are
sometimes called the gas giants
Out past Neptune you’ll find the small planet of Pluto which has a solid
but icier surface. Many don’t class this as a planet anymore but you
can read this on the Pluto
page.
These two systems are separated by the asteroid belt
Our Solar System also contains comets, moons, dust, gas and some minor
planets.

What Is The Solar System?

The solar system is made of the eight planets that orbit our
sun it is also made of asteroids, moons, comets and lots, lots more.
The sun has such
powerful gravity it tries to pull the planets towards it. While the
planets try to fly away in the end they are kind of in the middle
floating around the sun.
They are 140 moons that
orbit the eight planets in the solar system. The moons don’t
orbit the sun they orbit the planet they are nearest to.